Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Studying Thin Air

Pokemon Go hasn’t even been released in Singapore yet and
already there has been calls to ban the game in the country. A few days ago, a woman wrote to The Strait Times newspaper asking the Singaporean
government to ban the game.

She was widely laughed at.

Then things took a surreal turn when the Singapore Minister for Communications and
Information Yaacob Ibrahim told reporters at an event that the government will
“study very, very carefully whatever that is brought into Singapore” and "ensure
that the game will not harm lifestyles here".

I have to ask; what’s there to study?

They are trying to study
a problem that does not exist. The game hasn’t been released here yet so how can there be a problem for something that does not exist yet! Not only
that, it’s not even a potential problem. This game has over 21 million players
throughout the world and they want to setup a study on the rare occurrences of
people getting hurt playing the game. That is just stupid.

I mean seriously; the game hasn’t even been released yet and
they want to study the effects of the game in Singapore? What’s there to study?
Thin air?